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High-end Hotel in Baguio City, Benguet

At least eighty hotel employees and guests were killed However, three hotel employees were pulled out

alive after having been buried under the rubble for nearly two weeks, and after international rescue teams had abandoned the site convinced there were no more survivors. Luisa Mallorca and Arnel Calabia were extricated from the rubble 11 days after the quake, while hotel cook Pedrito Dy was recovered alive 14 days following the earthquake. All three survived in part by drinking their own urine and in Dy's case, rainwater. At that time, Dy's 14-day ordeal was cited as a world record for entombment underneath rubble.

7.8 magnitude

High-end Hotel in Baguio City, Benguet

The luxurious Nevada Hotel which is located right across from the main gate of Camp John Hay was ripped in half by the quake, leaving a huge gash in the middle of the structure

Its first floor was badly damages and a lot of people were crushed dead inside

The place has become Nevada Square, one of Baguio’s premier places for night life

Rows of bars and restaurants fille the area now

It was damaged beyond repair when the lower level collapsed, killing about 40 people

7.8 magnitude

Some of the oldest churches in the Philippines fell on

Tuesday morning, October 15.

The Church of San Pedro Apostol in Loboc–famous for being the second oldest church in Bohol–sustained major damage to its main structure, 3-story convent and bell tower.

The nearby bell tower made of crushed coral is now reduced to a stump, its base covered in rubble from its decimated walls, its bell lying on the ground.

Built in 1602 by Jesuit missionaries, the church was taken over by the Augustinian Recollects in 1768.

7.2 magnitude

Some of the oldest churches in the Philippines fell

to the force of a 7.2-magnitude earthquake that shook Bohol, Cebu and other parts of the Visayas and Mindanao on Tuesday morning, October 15

The Church of San Pedro Apostol in Loboc–famous for being the second oldest church in Bohol–sustained major damage to its main structure, 3-story convent and bell tower. Its intricate facade has completely crumbled while its roof of

clay tiles has fallen to the ground.

The nearby bell tower made of crushed coral is now reduced to a stump, its base covered in rubble from its decimated walls, its bell lying on the ground. Built in 1602 by Jesuit missionaries, the church was taken

over by the Augustinian Recollects in 1768.

It is one of Bohol's most famous religious sites and tourist attractions, admired for its beautiful facade and the native paintings on its ceilings.

7.2 magnitude

The earthquake-hit centuries-old Basilica Minoredel

Sto. Nino is set to be restored by 2015, in time for the celebration of 450th year of the finding of the image of the Senor Sto. Nino church

Two centuries-old bells went crashing to the ground when the coral stone belfry collapsed after the 7.2 magnitude earthquake last Oct. 15.

The basilica was closed since and masses were held at the quadrangle of the Pilgrim Center within the church compound

They are collecting the stones from the basilica's belfry and identify which of these can still be used.

Restore the belfry, the crowning glory of the 18th century basilica, by 2015

The earthquake destroyed most of the Basilica's belfry and façade; some walls and frescoes were cracked.

7.2 magnitude

The top floor of Gaisano Capital building

collapsed after fire of undetermined origin hit the mall.

No one was reported hurt in the fire.

A sudden burst of fire from the mall’s top building.

Black smoke still coming out from the broken windows of the 7-floor building of Gaisano Capital 15 hours after the fire broke,”

The fire began at 12:42 a.m. after a mall guard heard a loud explosion.

The fire could lead to the loss of at least a thousand jobs in Gaisano.

This is not the first time that portions of a Gaisano building collapsed.

In 2010, parts of Gaisano Capital Tisa located on F. Llamas St, Tisa, Cebu City collapsed, killing five construction workers and injuring six

burst of fire

At 432 years old, the Sts. Peter and Paul Parish

in Bantayan town in Bantayan Island is one of the country’s oldest churches

It is made of coral stones and inside, there are life-size statues of saints

The Sts. Peter and Paul Parish was destroyed by fire, allegedly started by Moros, in 1600 but was restored in the same year

Was not just a place for worship as locals supposedly sought refuge there in times of calamities and war.

Its feast was celebrated last week in time with the Palawod Festival. The fiesta, however, is not the only time this historic parish comes to life.

On Good Friday, it holds its now famous and always well-attended procession of the crucified Jesus

fire by moros

Exactly four months after super-typhoon Haiyan(locally

named Yolanda) struck the central Philippines on Nov. 8 last year, TaclobanCity in the island province of Leyte, which was the worst-hit, is slowly inching toward normalcy.

Packing winds of more than 300 kilometers an hour, Haiyan was the world's strongest typhoon to make a landfall in historic record.

In TaclobanCity, it was accompanied by a tsunami-like storm surge that flattened vast swathe of the city of some 250,000 people, killing and displacing thousands of residents. According to the station manager the airport is completely ruined.

Clearing operations at the Tacloban City airport began at 5 am after airport operations there were completely down. There was nothing left of the Tacloban airport but the runway

The terminal, the tower, including communication equipment, were destroyed.

haiyan/ yolanda

With power and communication lines still cut off,

and water running low, doctors and nurses in the Leyte capitol have another brewing problem – the lack of medicine to treat patients

Early morning Friday, November 8. In Tacloban City alone, at least 100 are believed to be dead, although unofficial reports say there could be over a thousand.

Running low on medicine Their pharmacy, was either swept away by storm surges

from Yolanda

Ransacked by looters in the city

Hospital staff are also in need of anti-tetanus medicine

Chest-deep waters reached the first floor of the hospital, forcing them to move patients to the 2nd floor Patients now stay inside private rooms or along the

hospital corridors. Some patients have chosen to go home

hospital's Intensive Care Unit was also "washed out"

Serves as temporary shelter for a family from Magallanes haiyan/

yolanda

Five-year old eight-story building, for reasons still

to be determined, simply collapsed in Tondo

There were no casualtie

The bad news is that it means that the National Building Code is not being strictly enforced even in Manila

pinpoint those responsible for the tragedy, it will either have to be the owner of the building, the structural engineers, the constructor or the government

The SAI building was eight stories high so the responsibility, if any, would be on the structural engineer.

violation of the

standards